Festive event in the center of the square, high erected onyx columns, people lined up in a long line, by the head wearing a helmet, with peacock feathers for the top of the men in front of the leading dance, the men dance while waving vigorously, all valiant, women shaking the color of handkerchiefs and fans, decorated with silver bubbles and silver chain swish, flash, like the colorful butterflies, like peacocks open screen.
The dance is arranged in formation, the formation changes in an orderly manner, such as the colorful practice scrolling, and sometimes like the mist floating; a large number of people, the scale of the grand, the momentum of the magnificent, the dance step robust and bright, in the wooden drums, gongs, "Dongba", flute and other musical instruments accompaniment, "Oh hot ah! The singing melody of "Oh Hot Ah" soars high into the sky and resounds all over the mountainous countryside of Jingpo.
2. Achang Aluwuluo Festival
Lianghe is one of the two Achang settlements in China. There are three Achang autonomous townships in the country, and Lianghe alone accounts for two of them, namely, Jiubao and Ansong Achang autonomous townships.
According to historical records, the Achang were the earliest Qiang ethnic group to live on the Qinghai-Gansu plateau, and some of them migrated from western Sichuan to western Yunnan at a very early stage. About the thirteenth century A.D., some of them began to move along Yunlong, Baoshan and Tengchong, and finally settled in Lianghe area.
Ancient Achang is a good song and dance, Achang song is clear, Achang dance is solemn and simple. The grandest and most characteristic traditional festival of the Achang people is "Wuluo Festival".
3, De'ang watering flower festival legend
De'ang (formerly known as Avalokitesvara), mainly living in the Lianghe Menghai village "two ancient city" and Menghong village "white dew head" two natural villages, is located in the subtropical mountainous areas, housing is mostly for the bamboo The two natural villages are located in the subtropical semi-mountainous area, and most of the houses are bamboo and wooden buildings.
The Watering of Flowers Festival (also known as the Water Splashing Festival) is a traditional festival of the De'ang ethnic group, which begins five to seven days after the Ching Ming Festival and lasts for three days. The Festival of Watering Flowers has the same connotation as the Dai "Water Splashing Festival", but the content of the activities varies greatly.
Expanded Information
1, Minnao Song Festival Festival connotation
Minnao Song Festival is the grandest and most grand national festival of Jingpo people. It is called "Menao" in Jingpo language and "Zongge" in Wa language, and "Menao Zongge" means to sing and dance together. It is the grandest festival held to honor "Mudai", the sun god of Jingpo, and is also a traditional festival of the Jingpo people.
Then the Jingpo people in the three mountains and five hills gather together to sing and dance, and when they dance the Minao Song and Dance, the number of people is less than a thousand, and when it is more than ten thousand, so it is also called the Dance of Ten Thousand People. It includes a variety of colorful dance forms, the dance team arranged into a formation, the dance steps bold and orderly, the rhythm is exciting and fast, showing the high level of Jingpo group dance.
A variety of "Murnau Song" not only has a long history and tradition and a wide range of masses, but also focuses on the religious beliefs, moral concepts and cultural and artistic characteristics of the Jingpo people, which is the motherland's cultural and artistic garden, a beautiful garden.
2. Introduction to the ethnic groups
The Achang are a less populous ethnic group unique to Yunnan Province, mainly distributed in Lianghe, Longchuan and Luxi counties and cities in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan, and partly in Tengchong and Longling counties in Baoshan City and Yunlong County in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture.
The Alu Wuluo Festival is a traditional festival of the Achang people, which used to be held annually on the tenth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. The "Alu" and "Wuluo" are two festivals based on two legendary stories. The "Alu Wuluo Festival" is a combination of the "Wuluo Festival" which is popular in Lianghe, Luxi, Tengchong, Longling, Yunlong and other Achang areas and the "Alu Festival" which is popular in Longchuan County's Tousa and Laxa areas. merged.
3, ethnic profile
Deang (formerly known as the Benglong), one of China's ethnic minorities. The current population is 15,462. The Deang are located in the subtropical semi-mountainous areas, and most of their houses are bamboo and wooden buildings.
The De'ang living in the Dehong area call themselves "De'ang", living in Zhenkang, Gengma and other counties call themselves "Niang" or "Na'ang". "Aang" is a national self-name, meaning "mountain rock", "rocky cave". "De", "ni" and "na" are honorific additions.
The Deang have their own language and script. The language belongs to the Wa Duc Aung branch of the Mon-Khmer group of the South Asian language family. The script is not widely spread and is mainly used to record the history, morals and regulations of the ethnic group and to write Buddhist scriptures. Many people are fluent in Dai, Chinese or Jingpo.
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